STOIC POETRY | Haunting a past life
October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Quiet remembrance of the truth
October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 4, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life at an oasis
October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 25, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Holding our breath
September 25, 2019 Dear Eric, How did you engage your mind during those final minutes of life before the lights went out for good? You...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 19, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The problem of evil
September 19, 2019 Dear Eric, Why would God create a universe with evil? "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 17, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Henry David Thoreau visits Siberia Ghost Town
September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 16, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The view from outer-space
September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 3, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | To die in doubt
September 3, 2019 Dear Eric, Can you imagine how much less my confidence now, than when we once conferred together on so many subjects of
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Kurt Bell
Sep 2, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Agent in a vacuum
September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe
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Kurt Bell
Aug 18, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pirate ride
August 18, 2019 Dear Eric, There’s no good reason to imagine we’re anything but atoms and molecules, and compounds and organs, and muscles
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Kurt Bell
Jul 3, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | Crossing now from the place...
I wrote this to describe the feeling I get when I hike away from Siberia ghost town, towards and into the low mountains to the north.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 2, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead
My muse is blind, deaf, mute and dead.
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Kurt Bell
Jul 1, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | It's flattery to call my muse a corpse...
It's flattery to call my muse a corpse, as she is so much less...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 11, 20181 min read
STOIC POETRY | Emerson's Impression of Going Alone
I ran across the following Ralph Waldo Emerson quote today while listening to an audio recording of his classic, Self Reliance. I've...
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